My Stepmother Sold My House to Teach Me a Lesson but She Didn’t Know About My Father’s Arrangement

of a key.

Someone was inside.

I scrambled backward on the rug, clutching the letter and the USB drive against my chest. Footsteps, slow and deliberate, moved down the hallway runner toward the kitchen. I lunged for the brass fire poker by the hearth and positioned myself behind the study door, holding my breath, my muscles wound so tight they ached.

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